I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, "What did you do for the summer?" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper.

People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.

I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood.

I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.